Tbilissi Arts Academy
Trip Start
Dec 17, 2005
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Trip End
Jan 17, 2006
Tbilissi, Georgia
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
The Tbilis State Academy of Arts is an integral part of Eric's and his family's life. His mother, Isa, works for the Georgia National Arts Gallery and his father, Roland, is a famous painter and sculpturist throughout the country who already has works on permanent display in the Georgia National Arts Gallery.
Eric (his Georgian name is Erekle) himself studies to be a restaurator of artistic and archeological objects. When he was in Stuttgart he spent hours and hours in the well equipped laboratories of one of the richest Art Academy's in Germany. He constantly talks about pigments, colours, and microscopes. If he is not in Tbilisi, you can find him somewhere in the Georgian country-side, restaurating old churches or digging out antique objects of art.
Unfortunately we were in Georgia in winter, or we would have accompanied him on one of his exhibitions.
Nevertheless, we explored the out -and insides of the Tbilisi Arts Academy. In order to get to the building, we went to the city centre and started to climb up a hill. It was our first sunny day in Georgia. The ancient and mostly destroyed streets took on a romantic look in the warmly coloured rays of sunlight. If somebody would have played Bossa Nova, I would have felt like in Brasil, only that it never gets that cold there.
We (Erik, Keti, Baidi and I) bought some bread and oranges, some Georgian mountain cheese. Then we hurried on to the Academy. Erik had to take an exam today. He had not prepared. The only preparation consisted of drinking vodka and eating with his German and Chinese friends.
Now the street went downhill. We could walk faster. Suddenly we turned right and entered through a small iron gate. We were on the grounds of the Arts Academy.
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